South Asian Studies
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
£40.00 / $40.00
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An Introduction to Changing India
Culture, Politics and Development
Sirpa Tenhunen, Minna Säävälä
This book provides a comprehensive view on rapidly changing India. It covers Indian culture, politics, economy and technology, as well as population and environmental issues.
Anthem Press
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9780857288059
December 2012
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£24.95 / $24.95This book provides a comprehensive view on rapidly changing India. It covers Indian culture, politics, economy and technology, as well as population and environmental issues.
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Statemaking and Territory in South Asia
Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)
Bernardo A. Michael
This volume seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories.
Anthem Press
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9780857285195
December 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories.
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Studies in Hindu Law and Dharmaśāstra
Ludo Rocher
Edited by Donald R. Davis, Jr
foreword by Richard W. LariviereThis book presents for the first time a collection of the major studies on Hindu law and Dharmaśāstra by Ludo Rocher, one of the brightest lights of American academia. This collection of essays serves as an invaluable introduction to Rocher’s distinctive and important contributions to the field of Indology.
Anthem Press
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9780857285508
September 2012
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£130.00 / $130.00This book presents for the first time a collection of the major studies on Hindu law and Dharmaśāstra by Ludo Rocher, one of the brightest lights of American academia. This collection of essays serves as an invaluable introduction to Rocher’s distinctive and important contributions to the field of Indology.
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Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India
Bihar, 1760s–1880s
Nitin Sinha
This volume offers a detailed analysis of colonial policies in respect to communication in India – via roads, ferries, steamships and railways – and reveals how communication became an integral part of colonial governance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Anthem Press
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9780857284488
September 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers a detailed analysis of colonial policies in respect to communication in India – via roads, ferries, steamships and railways – and reveals how communication became an integral part of colonial governance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Mapping the Nation
An Anthology of Indian Poetry in English, 1870–1920
Edited by Sheshalatha Reddy
Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, ‘Mapping the Nation’ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870–1920.
Anthem Press
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9780857284419
June 2012
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£130.00 / $130.00Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, ‘Mapping the Nation’ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870–1920.
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Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India
Interrogating Political Society
Edited by Ajay Gudavarthy
This volume critically unpacks the concept of ‘political society’, formulated as a response to the idea of civil society in a postcolonial context.
Anthem Press
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9780857283504
March 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume critically unpacks the concept of ‘political society’, formulated as a response to the idea of civil society in a postcolonial context.
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The Mahanubhavs
Antonio Rigopoulos
This volume offers an overview of the origins and main religious and doctrinal characteristics of the Mahanubhavs, the ascetic, devotional sect that arose in 13th century Maharashtra.
Anthem Press
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9780857284013
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers an overview of the origins and main religious and doctrinal characteristics of the Mahanubhavs, the ascetic, devotional sect that arose in 13th century Maharashtra.
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Studies in the Kasikavrtti. The Section on Pratyaharas
Critical Edition, Translation and Other Contributions
Edited by Pascale Haag, Vincenzo Vergiani
This volume contains a critical edition, English translation and essays on the initial section of the Kasikavrtti (7th c. CE), the oldest complete commentary on the Astadhyayi of Panini.
Anthem Press
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9780857284341
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume contains a critical edition, English translation and essays on the initial section of the Kasikavrtti (7th c. CE), the oldest complete commentary on the Astadhyayi of Panini.
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Tradition, Veda and Law
Studies on South Asian Classical Intellectual Traditions
Federico Squarcini
The essays presented in this volume constitute a progression from general considerations related to the ‘etic’ (in the geertzian sense of the word) approach to South Asian cultural productions, to peculiar and detailed investigations of them.
Anthem Press
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9780857284365
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00The essays presented in this volume constitute a progression from general considerations related to the ‘etic’ (in the geertzian sense of the word) approach to South Asian cultural productions, to peculiar and detailed investigations of them.
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The Anthropologist and the Native
Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere
Edited by H. L. Seneviratne
‘The Anthropologist and the Native’ is a multidisciplinary volume of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the distinguished anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere.
Anthem Press
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9780857284358
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Anthropologist and the Native’ is a multidisciplinary volume of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the distinguished anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere.
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Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata
Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
This volume is the first attempt at a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and the twelfth century CE.
Anthem Press
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9780857284334
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume is the first attempt at a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and the twelfth century CE.
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Ascetics and Brahmins
Studies in Ideologies and Institutions
Patrick Olivelle
This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.
Anthem Press
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9780857284327
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.
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Language, Texts, and Society
Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and Religion
Patrick Olivelle
This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studies is the search for historical context and developments hidden within words and texts.
Anthem Press
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9780857284310
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studies is the search for historical context and developments hidden within words and texts.
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Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia
Edited by Federico Squarcini
This collection of essays features a significant selection of the specialized fields of knowledge that have shaped classical South Asian intellectual history, focusing on the different and complex processes employed during the ‘invention’, construction, preservation and renewal of a given tradition.
Anthem Press
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9780857284303
December 2011
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£130.00 / $130.00This collection of essays features a significant selection of the specialized fields of knowledge that have shaped classical South Asian intellectual history, focusing on the different and complex processes employed during the ‘invention’, construction, preservation and renewal of a given tradition.
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India and China: Interactions through Buddhism and Diplomacy
A Collection of Essays by Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi
compiled by Bangwei Wang, Tansen Sen
This volume collates the classic works of the preeminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956).
Anthem Press
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9789380601175
October 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume collates the classic works of the preeminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956).
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Stages of Life
Indian Theatre Autobiographies
Kathryn Hansen
Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.
Anthem Press
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9780857286604
October 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.
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Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle
Edited by Steven E. Lindquist
This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
Anthem Press
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9780857287908
October 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America’s leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
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ICTs and Development in India
Perspectives on the Rural Network Society
T. T. Sreekumar
'ICTs and Development in India' is a unique attempt to study the nature and consequences of the growing presence of Information Technology in development projects in India.
Anthem Press
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9781843318439
May 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00‘ICTs and Development in India’ is a unique attempt to study the nature and consequences of the growing presence of Information Technology in development projects in India.
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Aboard the Democracy Train
A Journey through Pakistan's Last Decade of Democracy
Nafisa Hoodbhoy
'Aboard the Democracy Train' is a gripping front-line account of Pakistan's decade of turbulent democracy (1988-1999), as told through the eyes of the only woman reporter working during the Zia era for the nation's leading English language newspaper.
Anthem Press
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9780857289674
April 2011
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£24.95 / $24.95‘Aboard the Democracy Train’ is a gripping front-line account of Pakistan’s decade of turbulent democracy (1988-1999), as told through the eyes of the only woman reporter working during the Zia era for the nation’s leading English language newspaper.
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Trysts with Democracy
Political Practice in South Asia
Edited by Stig Toft Madsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Uwe Skoda
This volume offers a collection of lucid, theoretically stimulating articles that explore and analyse the institutions and values which are salient in understanding political practices in South Asia.
Anthem Press
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9780857287731
March 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers a collection of lucid, theoretically stimulating articles that explore and analyse the institutions and values which are salient in understanding political practices in South Asia.
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Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia
From Improvement to Development
Edited by Carey A. Watt, Michael Mann
This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia.
Anthem Press
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9781843318644
March 2011
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£99.00 / $99.00This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia.
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The Anti-Politics Machine in India
State, Decentralization and Participatory Watershed Development
Vasudha Chhotray
This book assesses the validity of ‘anti-politics’ critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the extent to which it is possible to keep politics out of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory.
Anthem Press
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9780857287670
March 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This book assesses the validity of ‘anti-politics’ critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the extent to which it is possible to keep politics out of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory.
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Locating the Anglo-Indian Self in Ruskin Bond
A Postcolonial Review
Debashis Bandyopadhyay
This study explores the dialogue between the biographical and authorial selves of the writer Ruskin Bond, whose liminal subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time.
Anthem Press
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9789380601045
January 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This study explores the dialogue between the biographical and authorial selves of the writer Ruskin Bond, whose liminal subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time.
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Liberal Peace In Question
Politics of State and Market Reform in Sri Lanka
Edited by Kristian Stokke, Jayadeva Uyangoda
This book examines the politics of crafting liberal peace in contemporary intrastate conflicts using Sri Lanka’s failed attempt to negotiate peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Anthem Press
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9781843318965
January 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This book examines the politics of crafting liberal peace in contemporary intrastate conflicts using Sri Lanka’s failed attempt to negotiate peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.